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How to Borrow Chords From the Minor Key Step By Step
This is a really awesome topic for beginner songwriters to get into for spicing up chord progressions. However, it is going to require that you understand Roman Numeral Analysis and Major and Minor scales. Here’s a post on Roman Numeral Analysis Explained Simply if you…
How to Find the “Right” Chords for Your Song Every Time
Ah, the plague of every songwriter. How do you find the right chords for a song with so many options? How do you make emotive chord progressions that pull at your heartstrings and take you on a ride from start to finish? How do you…
The Roles of Songwriter vs Producer in Making Songs
In the process of making music there are often roles that get confused with each other or seem to blend together out of how we hear the words used. Songwriters and producers are two examples of this dynamic where people often use both words to…
Mistakes & Solutions Recording Acoustic Guitar at Home
Let me know if this experience sounds familiar. While I learned on acoustic like most other guitar players, I quickly switched to electric, so by the time I got to having recording experience, it was only on electric guitar. When I started writing acoustic songs…
Songwriting Tips for Music Producers
Nowadays there are a lot of people who don’t play an instrument but instead become producers and learn how to write songs using computers. This post is for you. By programming instruments you can write full songs without ever touching an instrument, and can later…
The Best Virtual Instrument Libraries for Songwriters
If you are a songwriter that is starting to write songs or make demos on a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation), and you are looking to start your library of instruments to use in your productions, this post is for you. Let’s begin by stating that…
What is the Best DAW for Songwriters?
Songwriters nowadays have a lot of hats to wear. Aside from writing songs it’s safe to say some level of music production knowledge is an absolute must, if only to make some decent sounding demos. This is very important to have before going into the…
How Do Chord Inversions Work in Songwriting?
So you’re writing songs and trying to figure out chord progressions and you came across the topic of chord inversions and want to know how they are used in songwriting. Let me start by saying that although it might sound like a complicated topic it…
How to Choose Scales for Improvisation
Improvisation is a whole world in and of itself and it can get really complicated. In this article I’d like to keep things simple and just give you some tips to pick scales to use over chords and chord progressions. This will help with your…
Easy Hacks for Finding a Song’s Key
As a songwriter and musician, there are some situations you will run into where you will want to know what the key of a song is. One of these might be that you wrote a song entirely by ear and now you’re editing it to…
How to Write a Mixolydian Rock Song
Let’s talk about the Mixolydian mode and how to use it to write a song that has its unique sound. Like all modes it has a certain level of brightness or darkness compared to other scales. This is one of the brighter sounding modes, although…
Writing Songs that Soar Using the Lydian Mode
This is a mode that is great to get a feeling of floating in your songs since it has a floating, ethereal and epic type of sound. This mode is said to be brighter than the Major scale. In a way it sounds a bit…
Crafting Darker Songs with the Phrygian Mode
If you think of all the modes as having different levels of darkness and brightness, Phrygian is one one the darkest, second only to Locrian (which sounds downright disturbing lol). Because it sounds so dark it’s often found in genre’s like Metal and Rock but…
How to Write a Captivating Song in Dorian Mode
Many songwriters look for ways to make their songs sound more captivating, and one of the most popular ways is to create songs that are based on specific modes. You may have heard about modes and might have an understanding that it is a scale….
Roman Numeral Analysis Explained Simply
Let’s say you are the Batman of songwriting. You have all the moves. Your chords, scales, pentatonics, knowing how to write melodies, etc are your kicks, punches, chokeholds, grapples, etc. Another huge tool in your belt must be to be able to do Roman Numeral…
How to Pick the Best Key to Write a Song In
A lot of songwriters play instruments like piano and guitar. You might be sitting down on one of these instruments and while playing around stumble upon an idea for a song. Following this thread of inspiration you might come up with Intros, Verses, Choruses, Bridges,…
How to See Your Guitar & Gear On a Dark Stage
Whether there’s no stage lights because it’s a dingy dive bar or they are turned off briefly as part of the light show, it can be a pain not being able to see your guitar’s fretboard during a show. This can cause you to miss…
How to Use the Circle of Fifths for Songwriting
Believe it or not the Circle of Fifths is actually a tool to simplify your life even though it may look really technical at first glance. It’s particularly helpful for people who are very visual and like seeing diagrams rather than learning through reading. Many…
What Music Theory Should Guitar Players Know?
If you’re learning to play guitar or you’ve played guitar for years and have never dove into music theory, you might be wondering what you should learn and what an experienced guitar player is expected to know. Let me start off by saying that there…
Does Music Theory Ruin Creativity? (And How To Avoid That)
This is such a great question and a topic of debate between musicians, especially those that have had a formal musical education and those who have not. In general, knowing music theory does not ruin your creativity in songwriting. In many ways it can actually…
How to Choose a Backup Guitar (with Recommendations)
So you’re getting out there and playing the songs you wrote, or maybe you’re playing guitar in a band. You’re going to notice that sometimes, shows won’t go as planned. You might break a string or a pickup might give out or something else could…
How to Write an Instrumental Song
Being a huge prog head, I do love me a good instrumental song. Some of my favorite artists/ bands/musicians that make instrumental music include a lot of Jazz fusion guys (Bill Bruford, Alan Holdsworth, Jean Luc Ponty come to mind right away). I also listen…
Spice Up Your Melodies with Melodic Movement
Melodies are one of the core building blocks in music and are the element that gets stuck in your head the most. A catchy melody can be instantly recognizable. Just think of twinkle twinkle little star, or the happy birthday melody. Once you memorize these…
How to be Objective When Songwriting
I would say one of the most unspoken skills of a great songwriter is learning how to be objective about your own songs. This can be hard because when you are creating any piece of work it can feel like it’s your baby. You can…
How to Use Chord Extensions in Songwriting
So following up on my last post about what chord extensions are (read it here if you need a refresher What are Chord Extensions?). I wanted to expand more on how to use them practically in songwriting. In general, chord extensions can be used to…
